Special Education Teachers, Middle School

Also called:
Middle School Special Education Teacher, Special Education Resource Teacher, Special Education Teacher, Teacher

What they do:

Teach middle school subjects to educationally and physically handicapped students. Includes teachers who specialize and work with audibly and visually handicapped students and those who teach basic academic and life processes skills to the mentally impaired.

On the job, you would:

Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.

Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.

Modify the general education curriculum for special-needs students based upon a variety of instructional techniques and instructional technology.

Arts and Humanities

English language

Education and Training

teaching and course design

Math and Science

psychology

arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Business

administrative services

Basic Skills

listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions

talking to others

Social

teaching people how to do something

changing what is done based on other people's actions

Problem Solving

noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Verbal

communicate by speaking

listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

notice when problems happen

make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information

Attention

pay attention to something without being distracted

People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.